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Product Portfolio Manager – Group Benefits Administration

Role overview

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in Product Management, Product Portfolio Management, or Platform Leadership roles
  • Deep expertise in Group Benefits Administration, especially in the U.S. market
  • Proven track record leading multi-product portfolios
  • Strong executive-level communication skills

Responsibilities

  • Define and maintain a unified portfolio vision addressing regulatory and market needs
  • Develop multi-year roadmaps balancing innovation, client commitments, and modernization investments
  • Partner closely with Engineering for scalable platform improvements
  • Serve as the senior product leader for cross-functional stakeholders

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Communication
  • Prioritization
  • Governance
  • Collaboration

About the company

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TELUS

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At TELUS, our purpose-driven team works together every day to innovate and do good. From providing technology solutions that make our lives safer and easier, to supporting those who need it most, our inclusive, spirited and giving people are passionate about empowering our customers, communities and each other to thrive in our digital world. A company that helps you be your best self at home and at work: Find a place where you truly belong, your opinions are valued and you can be your best self. A career that ignites your full potential: Get the guidance and support you need to explore your interests, build your skills and get where you want to go. A culture that goes beyond the expected to strengthen communities and the planet: Seize the opportunity to make a difference in our communities and do good for our planet as part of our purpose-driven team. An innovative team committed to solving complex, real world problems: Join a digitally-enabled workforce that’s pushing the boundaries to create sustainable change. Join us, and let’s make the future friendly, together www.telus.com/careers

Company details

Company typeLarge
IndustryTelecommunications
Company size10001

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Job description

TELUS Health is empowering every person to live their healthiest life. Guided by our vision, we are leveraging the power of our leading edge technology and focusing on the uniqueness of each individual to create the future of health. As a global-leading health and well-being provider – encompassing physical, mental and financial health – TELUS Health is improving health outcomes for consumers, patients, healthcare professionals, employers and employees.

Join our team and what we'll accomplish together

Imagine shaping the future of retirement and benefits for millions of people across North America—and actually seeing your vision come to life.
At TELUS Health, we're modernizing Group Benefits Administration. We're not just updating technology; we're fundamentally rethinking how employers deliver benefits that truly matter to their workforce. From the latest compliance challenges to evolving U.S. market demands, we're building solutions that set the standard across the continent.

As Product Portfolio Manager, you'll own the strategic direction of our entire Group Benefits Administration portfolio—setting the vision, steering investment decisions, and partnering with senior leaders across Product, Engineering, Architecture, Operations, Sales, and Delivery. You'll work across a complex, matrixed organization where your judgment directly influences which modernization initiatives move forward, where we take calculated risks, and how we stay ahead of regulatory and competitive pressures.

This is a senior role for someone who thrives at enterprise scale and wants to leave a lasting impact on how benefits are delivered across North America.


What you'll do
 

Portfolio Vision & Strategy

  • Define and maintain a unified portfolio vision that addresses the unique regulatory, compliance, and market needs across Canada and especially the U.S. Group Benefits landscape

  • Develop multi-year roadmaps that balance innovation, client commitments, modernization investments, and regulatory requirements

  • Make tough prioritization calls—deciding where to invest, what to standardize, and how to reduce platform fragmentation without losing market competitiveness

  • Work collaboratively with Product Managers and Architects to translate strategy into executable plans
     

Platform Alignment & Modernization

  • Partner closely with Engineering and Architecture leaders to ensure your portfolio strategy drives real, scalable platform improvements

  • Oversee large-scale client migrations and platform modernization initiatives—defining readiness gates, success metrics, and governance checkpoints

  • Drive consistency across products to reduce complexity while managing both short-term client needs and long-term platform health
     

Stakeholder Leadership

  • Serve as the senior product leader for cross-functional stakeholders—communicating complex portfolio topics to executives and enabling informed, strategic decision-making

  • Support channel and carrier partnerships by aligning product roadmaps with market opportunities and partner enablement needs

  • Position our solutions in the market, translating portfolio strategy into compelling client and partner narratives
     

Governance, Risk & Compliance

  • Ensure portfolio strategies align with evolving North American regulatory, legislative, privacy, and security requirements

  • Proactively identify and manage portfolio-level risks—scalability challenges, data integrity, support models, and delivery risks

  • Monitor and communicate portfolio health metrics, including platform stability, modernization progress, and delivery risk


A typical week:

You'll likely spend time in stakeholder alignment meetings (working across distributed product, technology, and delivery teams), digging into business cases for major modernization investments, collaborating with your Architecture partner on target-state platform direction, and communicating trade-offs and priorities to senior leadership. You'll also work hands-on with product managers to review emerging roadmap items and with partners to understand market pressures and opportunities.


What you bring


Must-haves

  • 10+ years in Product Management, Product Portfolio Management, or Platform Leadership roles, ideally in enterprise, complex environments

  • Deep expertise in Group Benefits Administration, with particular strength and knowledge of the U.S. market, legislation, and compliance landscape

  • Proven track record leading multi-product portfolios with the ability to think and operate at enterprise scale

  • Experience overseeing modernization and large-scale migration programs, including managing legacy platforms, multi-tenant complexity, and change at scale

  • Strong executive-level communication skills and proven ability to influence across matrixed organizations with distributed ownership models

  • Sound judgment in prioritization and trade-off decisions—you're comfortable making tough calls and explaining the "why" to senior stakeholders

  • Working knowledge of North American regulatory and compliance environments, with demonstrated expertise in U.S. Group Benefits market requirements


Nice-to-haves

  • Experience supporting channel and carrier partnerships (partner enablement, alignment of capabilities to market opportunities)

  • Background working closely with Architecture or Technology leadership on platform strategy

  • Experience defining governance models and operating frameworks across product portfolios

  • Familiarity with employer, carrier, and partner ecosystems across both public and private sector markets


Ready to lead portfolio strategy at enterprise scale? If you're energized by complexity, thrive in stakeholder-driven environments, and want to shape the future of benefits administration across North America, let's talk.


Apply now or reach out to discuss how your experience aligns with this opportunity.

A bit about us

We’re a people-focused, customer-first, purpose-driven team who works together every day to innovate and do good. We improve lives through our technology solutions and foster a culture of innovation that empowers team members to solve complex problems and create remarkable human outcomes in a digital world. 

TELUS Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer that aims to foster an inclusive culture that embraces diversity. It is our policy to hire without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, citizenship status, sex, marital status, age, disability, sexual orientation or veteran status.We offer accommodation for applicants with disabilities, as required, during the recruitment process. 

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